SwordPlay And Dramatic Action

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I am so honoured yo be asked to present st this year’s SAFDi National Stage Combat Works!

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The next instructor to join the 2019 SAFDi Nationals team is Justin Palazzo-Orr,

Justin Palazzo-Orr graduated from James Cook University with a Bachelor of Theatre (Acting) in 1998. Through the financial assistance of Regional Arts Development Funding and Arts Queensland funding he regularly travelled throughout Australia to further his training in stage combat and fight direction and bring his knowledge and experience back to his hometown of Townsville in North Queensland. Justin has worked as a Stage Combat consultant and instructor for La Boite, Tropic Sun, James Cook University, Queensland

University of Technology (QUT), Queensland Opera, and Queensland Ballet. Since moving to Brisbane in 2008 Justin has been involved in many productions including collaborations with Nigel Poulton on Fractions (Queensland Theatre Company), Dracula (Shake & Stir), Julius Caesar (La Boite), Macbeth (Queensland Theatre Company and Grin & Tonic) and four Hamlets (La Boite, Melbourne Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare Company and QUT).

Soooo looking forward to this!

Introducing our first instructor for the 2019 SAFDi Nationals.

Nigel is an award-winning movement, fight and intimacy director, movement coach, weapon specialist, and actor. He is a member of Intimacy Directors International; an Instructor, Fight Director and past President of the Society of Australian Fight Directors Inc; a Certified Fight Director and Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors; an Honorary Fight Director with Fight Directors Canada; and has been certified with the British Academy of Dramatic Combat. Nigel has particular expertise in kinesthetic movement processes and combat systems, classical, historical and adaptive swordplay, and edged weapon use. Nigel has worked internationally over the last fourteen years, is a classically trained fencer under the tutorship of Maestri Ramon and Jeanette Martinez of the Martinez Academy of Arms and has trained and taught extensively in Historical European Martial Arts throughout the world. He is also a practitioner of Vsevelod Meyerhold’s Theatrical Biomechanics system, having trained intensively with the system’s current custodian Gennadi Bogdanov.

Choreography credits include the Australian Ballet (2018), the New York City Ballet (2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018), The Metropolitan Opera (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2014 and 2015), Sydney Theatre Company, the Bell Shakespeare Company, Washington Opera Company (2002 tour of Japan), Opera Australia, Circus Oz, Melbourne Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre Company, Belvoir Street, La Boite Theatre (Brisbane), Playbox Theatre (Melbourne), and Kooemba Jdarra (Brisbane).

Nigel’s film work includes: Occupation 2, Pirates of the Carribean V, Deadline Gallipoli, The Water Diviner, The Bourne Legacy, Vikingdom and Winter’s Tale. Through Nigel’s association with Weapons Specialists Ltd creative team in New York, he has worked on set for productions including: The Good Wife (Scott Free Productions), Person of Interest (Kilter Films), One Shot (Paramount Pictures), Boardwalk Empire (HBO), Salt (Columbia Pictures), I Am Legend (Warner Bros. Pictures), Sopranos – 1997 Season (HBO), The Ministers, (Collective), 30 Rock (Broadway Video) and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Wolf Films).

In August 2016 Nigel represented the Society of Australian Fight Directors Inc and the Society of American Fight Directors at the inaugural World Stage Combat Training Conference in Toronto, Canada. He has been studying and teaching various martial and combat systems for over 15 years and was on faculty (part-time) as resident stage combat instructor at the University of Southern Queensland from 2001 to 2012. Nigel was also the stage combat instructor at the National Institute of Dramatic Art from 2000 to 2003, and has been a guest teacher at institutions such as The John F Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts and The Shakespeare Theatre Academy for Classical Acting (Washington DC). Nigel is also a past coordinator of the Paddy Crean International Workshop and Symposium and has been a regular guest presenter at various historical swordplay conferences throughout Australia. Nigel was also a guest presenter at the 2006 World Shakespeare Congress.

In 2012 Nigel was the recipient of the Melbourne Green Room Awards for outstanding contribution to the Melbourne stage, and has gratefully received grants from the Australia Council for the Arts and Queensland Arts Council in 2005 and 2008 to undertake continuing professional development with leading theatre practitioners throughout the world.

Our friends over at Stage Combat Perth have a fantastic workshop coming up in January 2019.

Check out the details in the link.

2019 WESTERN REGIONAL STAGE COMBAT WORKSHOP
No need to keep it a secret! The 2019 WRSCW is taking place from January 7-18 at Perth College, Mt Lawley, WA.
Courses offered are Fundamentals and a Specialisation level course titled Deadly Point To Point.
For more information or to make a booking, please contact Andy Fraser, Workshop Co-ordinator via email: [email protected] or on 0417 980 366
Happy Swashbuckling!

In celebration of Talk Like a Pirate day our September Weekend Workshop theme is ‘Fight Like a Pirate.’

A playful homage to pirate film fights old and new, this two-day workshop will have you cutting & thrusting, swashing & buckling.

As bonus hidden treasure, the team at Flipside Circus are providing some bonus shipshape surfaces for us to play with.

For more details and bookings set your course to https://www.trybooking.com/XJNT

Thanks Flipside Circus for a great venue!
See you next month.

Thanks to everyone who came along to our Sword & Shield workshop this weekend.

Watch this space for information on our next weekend workshop in September.

Thanks to Sam & Jason for their great work assisting me with this workshop. You guys did a really great job! ☕️🗡🛡🍻